Before arriving in Spain, Francisco Corselli had developed an important career as opera composer and sacred music when he arrived in Spain in 1733 from Parma thanks to his previous relations with Isabella de Farnese, the future queen of Spain, and with the ducal house of Parma. At the Madrid court, he began his career as ‘maestro de música’ for…[Read more]

Before arriving in Spain, Francisco Corselli had developed an important career as opera composer and sacred music when he arrived in Spain in 1733 from Parma thanks to his previous relations with Isabella de Farnese, the future queen of Spain, and with the ducal house of Parma. At the Madrid court, he began his career as ‘maestro de música’ for…[Read more]

Though English supporters of the Oxford theologian John Wycliffe (d.1384)—known as “Lollards”—had been drawn from academic and noble/gentry circles during the later-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, persecution, equation of heresy with sedition, and the failure of Sir John Oldcastle’s Rebellion (1414) ensured overt abandonment of Lollard i…[Read more]

This article deals with reception Opera history and shows how influential the Spanish tenor was in bringing Mozart’s operas to audiences especially in Madrid, in London, and in Paris.

This article deals with reception Opera history and shows how influential the Spanish tenor was in bringing Mozart’s operas to audiences especially in Madrid, in London, and in Paris.

The article examines regulations for »order« at the princely courts in the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century and asks how these prescriptive documents sought to establish “good order” at court. Special attention is paid to the theological justifications of order as well as the confessionality and the confessional character of court orders. T…[Read more]

Entrada sobre Eurocentrismo en el Diccionario de Injusticias editado por Carlos Pereda. // Dictionary Entry on Eurocentrism (in Spanish), my contribution to the Diccionario de Injusticias (A Dictionary of Injustices) edited by Carlos Pereda

Teaching the Holocaust in School. Greek particularities. The Why

Although the prohibition of avodah zarah (literally, “strange/foreign worship,” but more loosely translated as “idolatry”) is included in both the Torah’s 613 mitzvos for Jews and in the seven Noahide laws, many authorities maintain that the exact parameters of the prohibition differ when applied to Jews versus when applied to non-Jews. There is…[Read more]

Introduction to the poetry of Mohammad Zaman.

Syllabus for English 2Z03: Nature, Literature, Culture: An Introduction to the Environmental Humanities at McMaster University in the 2022 winter semester. This course used a form of contract grading, and this document includes the Contract Grading FAQ provided to students ahead of/during the course.

Louis Althusser was one of the foremost Marxist philosophers of the 20th century. His thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet it is often misunderstood in critical pedagogy and sociology of education. In this open access book, David Backer reexamines Althusser’s philosophy of education, presents its flawed reception in…[Read more]

Social reproduction theory names at least two distinct traditions, one of which has a long history in educational research. Social reproduction theory in education emerged out of a concern with education’s relationship to capitalist inequalities. By contrast, social reproduction feminism developed out of feminist interventions regarding the role o…[Read more]

This article introduces educational human resource researchers to Minnesota’s unique tax-base sharing program in the Twin Cities metro region. It also introduces a social justice methodology called cooperation analysis for school finance research, and specif-
ically its concept of structural justice. It applies cooperation analysis to tax-base s…[Read more]

Syllabus for graduate seminar at McMaster University. In this seminar we will examine practices surrounding death in a variety of Chinese religions. We will explore the various understandings of the death process, preparation for death, and the afterlife. We will look at the post-mortem treatment of the body, changing funerary practices and…[Read more]

Syllabus for graduate seminar at McMaster University. In this seminar we will examine practices surrounding death in a variety of Chinese religions. We will explore the various understandings of the death process, preparation for death, and the afterlife. We will look at the post-mortem treatment of the body, changing funerary practices and…[Read more]

प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित पुस्तक “महिषासुर एक जननायक” का उद्देश्य यह स्पष्ट करना है कि आखिर महिषासुर नाम से शुरू किया गया यह आन्दोलन है क्या? इसकी आवश्यकता क्यों पड़ी? इसके निहितार्थ क्या हैं? इस पुस्तक में प्रश्न उठाया गया है कि जब असुर एक प्रजाति है तो उसकी हार या उसके नायक की ह्त्या का उत्सव किस सांस्कृतिक मनोवृत्ति का परिचायक…[Read more]

महिषासुर से संबंधित बहुजन समाज के मिथकों व परंपराओं , पौराणिक मिथकों और आधुनिक युग में गढे़ गए मिथकों के अर्थों को खोलने वाली इस पुस्तक का संपादक प्रमोद रंजन ने किया है। इस पुस्तक में पहली बार महिषासुर शहादत/स्मरण दिवस की विस्तृत सैद्धांतिकी भी प्रस्तुत की गई है तथा इस संबंध में उठने वालो सभी सवालों के उत्तर प्रस्तुत किये गये हैं।…[Read more]

‘समय से संवाद: जनविकल्प संचयिता’ नाम यह पुस्तक हिंदी मासिक ‘जन विकल्प’ में प्रकाशित प्रतिनिधि सामग्री का संकलन है। प्रेमकुमार मणि और प्रमोद रंजन के संपादन में पटना से वर्ष 2007 में प्रकाशित इस पत्रिका की जनपक्षधरता, निष्पक्षता और मौलिक त्वरा ने समाजकर्मियों और बुद्धिजीवियों को गहराई से आलोड़ित किया था। इस पुस्तक में जिन लेखों और साक्षात्कारों…[Read more]